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title: "Hearts!" repeated the Portuguese, "indeed you have, almost as tende… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Hearts!" repeated the Portuguese, "indeed you have, almost as tender as the ducks in Portugal." Who acts: Hearts, you. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 115

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"Hearts!" repeated the Portuguese, "indeed you have, almost as tender as the ducks in Portugal."

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**Who acts:** Hearts, you · **What happens:** repeat, have · **To what, where:** Portuguese, tender

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Portuguese Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hearts, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:145:115
# text = "Hearts!" repeated the Portuguese, "indeed you have, almost as tender as the ducks in Portugal."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Portuguese	Portuguese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	tender	tender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ducks	duck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repeat** | past | Hearts | the Portuguese |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portuguese=Eventuality |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | you | tender |  |  |  | as the ducks in Portugal; indeed *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tender=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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